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Challenge #8

In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Learning how to gif! With extra proud-ness given that I (a) started from basically 0 knowledge of Photoshop save whatever remnants I remember from using GIMP like a decade ago, (b) generally don't consider myself as being any good with colours, and (c) managed to pull off pretty much every moderate-to-very unhinged gif idea I had, including some animations done from scratch.

Probably a whole 90% possibly more of everything I made was Zhou Shen because I'm single-minded like that (full gallery here!), with the rest scattered across various fandoms, starting with a particular SecUnit-favoured show…

( Murderbot, The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon: Gif on Tumblr ) – logo design from Tor

( Word of Honor: Gif on Tumblr ) – more gifs in the tag


( The Legend of Luoxiaohei: Gifset on Tumblr ) – more gifs in the tag


( Project Sekai: Gifset on Tumblr )


( Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun: Gif on Tumblr ) – drawn and animated from scratch!


( Murderbot, All Systems Red: Gif on Tumblr ) – another one created from scratch!

All can be found in my gif tag on Tumblr, including some before/after comparisons and effect breakdowns if you're interested in the process.

(Non-fannishly, it'd be cooking! Which was a development I would never have seen coming.)

Comments

[laireshi]

Oh yay! Congrats!

[spikedluv]

Those GIFs are amazing! Congrats on learning how to GIF!

[mithun]

What a cool skill. Your gifs look really fancy!

[externalities]

i thoroughly enjoy your "journey to the gif" posts

[muccamukk]

MURDERBOT! I love these so much!

[kingstoken]

What wonderful gifs! It is so hard to believe that you only learned how to make gifs in the past year, you're amazing. By the way I think the burn away Word of Honor gif is my favourite.

[unavee]

Wow, I love your gifs! Especially the animations from scratch. I don't know what Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun is, but the gif is adorable.

[tsuki_no_bara]

those are some really nice gifs. i wouldn't have guessed you just learned how to do it.

[corvidology]

And they're lovely as well!

[cornerofmadness]

Oh cool. Part of me would like to learn how to gif and the rest of me is like do you have the patience for this?

[svgurl]

Congrats on learning to gif! It's a great skill that I have wanted to do for ages but don't seem to have the patience for. And the ones you posted all look great. :D

[hamsterwoman]

Very cool skill to pick up! I especially enjoyed the Murderbot gifs.

[tielan]

These are spectacular! Well done!

[sam_gardener]

These gifs are really impressive! (especially Wen Kexing ;). Also so many of my fannish interests Zhou Shen, shl/tyk, Murderbot! I'll check out more of them on your Tumblr.

[halfcactus]

I’m on data so I can’t really open anything rn (though I am delighted to see a post about processes) but anyway XIAO HEI!!!!!!!

The motion animations are amazing, especially the Mass Murderer type effect! Did you do all that in PS?

[jesse_the_k]

These are exquisite GIFs!

Especially the Murderbot ones.